Beau Bridges

To 12-year-old David Hayden, his family is comfortable and familiar. But when Sioux housekeeper whispers her darkest fears in the heat of a fever, these statements, and the investigation they spark, will change David and his family forever.

Nine surfers, age from 60 to 93, talk about their love of surfing. The film explores the keys to successful aging, especially the importance of staying active and involved. Provides portraits of surfers ranging in age from 60 to 93, including pioneers and legends of the sport such as Rabbit Kekai (79), Woody Brown (88), John "Doc" Ball (93), Leroy Grannis (82), and Eve Fletcher (73), who talk about how surfing has influenced their lives. Interweaves...

When a new slave named NightJohn is brought to the plantation, he opens a whole new world for Sarny because he has forbidden talents. He can read and also he can teach. As she learns to read she learns the power of words and the unconquerable strength of the human spirit.

Musicians Jack and Frank Baker are stuck in a rut. Playing the same tired tunes night after night, the brothers are in desperate need of change. So when they meet a sultry singer named Susie Diamond, their future starts to sparkle. But when life in the limelight brings old rivalries to the surface as Jack and Susie's relationship heats up, the Baker boys soon find their act--and their lives--growing more entertaining than either of them may be able...

The true story of Olympic hopeful Jill Kinmont, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident while competing in a pre-Olympic competition in the 1950's. Left paralyzed from the neck down, she overcame self-pity and helplessness to become a teacher on a Paiute reservation.

Speeding along on her Daddy's lap in his 1946 Cadillac, little Shirley knew she was born to race. But little girls grow up to be women, and women have no place in the macho world of hot rod racing--until Shirley. The film takes us through her childhood as the daughter of a country western singer, a doomed marriage to an auto mechanic and, finally, her tumultuous rise to the top of drag racing. Through marriage, motherhood and competition, it's the...

Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.

Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.

Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...

Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.